Remote Monitoring of IoT Sensors and Communication Link Quality in Multisite mMTC Testbed

Seppo Horsmanheimo; Joonas Säe; Tero Jokela; Lotta Tuomimaki; Ethiopia Nigussie; Annemarie Hjelt; Sami Huilla; Tahsin Donmez; Nicolas Le Bail; Mikko Valkama

doi:10.1109/PIMRC.2019.8904414

Remote Monitoring of IoT Sensors and Communication Link Quality in Multisite mMTC Testbed

Seppo Horsmanheimo^*
, Joonas Säe
, Tero Jokela
, Lotta Tuomimaki
, Ethiopia Nigussie
, Annemarie Hjelt
, Sami Huilla
, Tahsin Donmez
, Nicolas Le Bail
, Mikko Valkama

^*Corresponding author for this work

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Abstract

Massive Machine Type Communication (mMTC) technologies are key to addressing communication requirements of various emerging IoT applications. In this work, a multisite mMTC test network is designed and implemented in order to investigate the long-term communication quality and sensor data of LoRa and NB-IoT. This is essential for remote network maintenance operations, because it allows distinguishing communication quality defects from software/hardware failures. Moreover, it provides additional information about the communication link quality for network management. The test network is geographically scattered over a large area in Finland and experimented both in private and public networks. Measurements on LoRaWAN test networks revealed that higher SNRs and RSSIs are generally achieved for devices with lower spreading factors. Comparison of NB-IoT and LoRaWAN shows that NB-IoT has better communication quality performance. Overall, this paper provides first long-term multi-site and multi-technology mMTC measurements and corresponding performance analysis that are not available in the existing literature.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	2019 IEEE 30th Annual International Symposium on Personal, Indoor and Mobile Radio Communications, PIMRC 2019
Publisher	IEEE Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers
Number of pages	7
ISBN (Electronic)	978-1-5386-8110-7
ISBN (Print)	978-1-5386-8111-4
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1109/PIMRC.2019.8904414
Publication status	Published - Sept 2019
MoE publication type	A4 Article in a conference publication
Event	30th IEEE Annual International Symposium on Personal, Indoor and Mobile Radio Communications, PIMRC 2019 - Istanbul, Turkey Duration: 8 Sept 2019 → 11 Sept 2019

Publication series

Series	IEEE International Symposium on Personal, Indoor, and Mobile Radio Communications Workshops
Volume	2019
ISSN	2166-9570

Conference

Conference	30th IEEE Annual International Symposium on Personal, Indoor and Mobile Radio Communications, PIMRC 2019
Abbreviated title	PIMRC Workshops
Country/Territory	Turkey
City	Istanbul
Period	8/09/19 → 11/09/19

Funding

This work was supported by the Finnish public funding agency for research, Business Finland, under the projects “Wireless for Verticals (WIVE)” and “5G Vertical Integrated Industry for Massive Automation (5G-VIIMA)”. Both projects are part of 5G Test Network Finland (5GTNF) and multisite prototype was developed by industrial and research partners.

Keywords

LoRa
mMTC
multisite testbed
NB-IoT
QoS

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Horsmanheimo, S., Säe, J., Jokela, T., Tuomimaki, L., Nigussie, E., Hjelt, A., Huilla, S., Donmez, T., Bail, N. L., & Valkama, M. (2019). Remote Monitoring of IoT Sensors and Communication Link Quality in Multisite mMTC Testbed. In 2019 IEEE 30th Annual International Symposium on Personal, Indoor and Mobile Radio Communications, PIMRC 2019 Article 8904414 IEEE Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers. https://doi.org/10.1109/PIMRC.2019.8904414

Horsmanheimo, Seppo ; Säe, Joonas ; Jokela, Tero et al. / Remote Monitoring of IoT Sensors and Communication Link Quality in Multisite mMTC Testbed. 2019 IEEE 30th Annual International Symposium on Personal, Indoor and Mobile Radio Communications, PIMRC 2019. IEEE Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers, 2019. (IEEE International Symposium on Personal, Indoor, and Mobile Radio Communications Workshops, Vol. 2019).

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